Eyeglass-mounting.



11. ROSKIND EYEGLASS MOUNTING.

APPLIUATION'PILED JAN.23, 1909.

Patented May 25, 1909;

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,To-all whom it may concern, I Be it known thatjI, HERMAN Gross-Ros Khan, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Columbia, in i the joounty' of Maury and Stateor{Fenness'e e,:- have made certain new, and ,use-r'ul 1in rovements in Eyes ass-M unting ,newbi allow n I 1s aspecificationj i h V lQ 1s anulnaproivement 1n eyeglass mountings, and-,particularly' in that class of said devices in whieh'the-guards are pivotally mounted and spring actuated and can be openedv for the application of the guards to the nose of the wearer and then re- .1

leased to engage by a spring action with the nose; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and "combinations of "parts as w ll=be hereinafter desorlbed and I claimed;

In the drawing,

I tion,*and Fig. 2 is atop plan view of a pair of eyeglass mountings embodying the IIIVGII-i' 'tion.

'Fig. his a detail perspective view fromthe Fig. 3 is a rear elevationthereofs.

rear sidefshowing one of the guards and its' cenneotion with thebridge. Fig. 5 is a detail-perspective view of one of the guards deta'ched; Fig. 6 is a transverse section drawn alongside the pivot ,of 'one of the guards.

Fig. 7 is a' detai line 7 7 of Fig. 6, and Fig. 8 shows a some.

what different construction within the broad principles of'the invention.

. posed to view from the rear of the mounting,

- the view from the front showing simply the bridge and the guards without the guard actuating spring. In securing this result the spring at its free end is seated in a groove or recess in the rear face of the bridge.

In the construction shownin Figs. 1 to 7 inclusive, the bridge A is )rovided at its ends with lens holders B, rigid with the bridge, and in the rear face of the bridgeadjacent to the opposite lens holders there are formed recesses O, which are alike exoe t that they are rights and lefts, and each 0 the said reoesses C,'isopen at the bottom and rear side,

is intersecte whole C, and has a communicating lateral exhtensmn or groove-G which extends 'out-,

wardl toward the lens-at the corresponding Y rad o" the ri g Th Opening 5mm Specification of gLetters Patent. Application filed Januaty 23, 1909. Serial No. 473,876.

Figure 1 is --afronteleva-- the recess orgrooveiC W through its top Wall by a bolt tion but differing somew Patented Ma er, 1909.

I. V ed to receive the bolt and the said bolt receives the notch or bearing-opening'E in the guard with the headof the bolt overlying the said guard and securing the same asw-ill be understood from Figs-4 and 6 of. the drawing; The guard E has a main body portion, pros vided with the bearing or opening E, and at the front end of the main bar is formed a handle E for convenience in operating the guard, and the rear end of the guard is pro= vided with a pador bearing'p'late to .en' gage the nose of the wearer. r1: The guard is providedbniits outers'ide or side next the lens with a spring Ef, prefer-i ably integral and formed. by. bifureating the main bar of the guardgandthisispring Efl has a general direction laterally to the'main bar, is coiled between -its feuds atiE? and-has its extremity E extended beyond ltsx'coil as best shown in Figs. 4 and5 of the draw ing. The coil E fits within the recess C'and the bearing E being preferablyav notch 2, opening at the side of the main bar opposlte the spring E is held by the connection of the spring E with the bolt-D in connection with the said pivot bolt D, as will-be under ,stood from Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawing: horizontal section on about; i in Figs. 4, 6 and 7, the bolt l) extends down through the body wall [of the recess 0 and thence through the coil E of the spring,

When the parts are assembled as shown lying within the extension. E of the spring en the parts are thus arranged it will befnoticed that the spring will actuate thev guard .toicause it to press yieldingly toward the opposing guard, so that the guards will lie norrna y comparativelyclose together, but may be spread apart by pressing the handle portions E of the op osite guards toward each other in fitting t e mounting to' the nose, when by freeing the handle portion E the ads or hearing )lates will grip the nose between them. he arrangement of the recesses C and the spring of the op osite' mountings is such that they are exc uded from view and cannot be seen from the front lot of the mountings, thus avoiding anyunusual a pearance at thefront'of the mountin 's, w ich is highly desirablein this class ofevices.

In Fig. 8 is shown aciinstruction within Lire some of the broad prinoiles 'bfthe inven-f struction. In this construction, shown in Fig. 8, the guard F, is pivoted atG and has inclusive, the'guards can be conveniently removed by lifting the extremities E? oftlie springout of 'thegro'ove Cf, sliding the main bar, of the guard at} E out of engagement withthe bolt D and lowering the coil' E v off the lower end of the bolt 1) and the guards canheapplied by reversing this operation, whiohica'n be, quickly accomplished wheneverdosi'red. l l V best shown "in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, the mainfba'r returned atits rear end ate, and the bearing late E is carried by thereturn ortioni.' T is is useful and important in tting the bearing 'plates to the nose of the wearer'as-itpermits of the'bending ofthe mountingno'tj only as to the bearing plate E but also as to'theconnection of said.

bearing late with the lever E supporting the said earing plate. I am thus able to secure. an accurate fitting of the bearing plate by'fthis special construction of the re turn portion, of the support for said plate,

as shown at 'e and "before described.

QWhatisclaimed is I U f 1'. eyeglass amounting comprising- 1 bridge, providedin its rear face nearits en I with are'cess open at its rear and bottom sides and with a groove leading from the said recess toward the end of the bridge and in the rear'face of the latter, and with a bolt ho'le' in the upperwall of said recess and leading t-here'to, abolt'iin said hole and having a head above the bridge and its body portion extending in the said recess, a guard having a body portion notched in its inner face to fit the said bolt and underlying the head thereof, and having in rear of said notch an integral laterally extending spring coiled between its ends, and having its coiled portion fitting in the recess of the bridge and in position to receive the said bolt and having an extension beyond the said coil seating in the groove leading from the said recess, setlforth.

2. An eyeglass mounting comprising a bridge having in its rear facej'a recess excluded from view from the front (if-the bridge, and a guard having a main bar pivoted to t e bridge, and an'integral spring held in the said recess,substantially as set forth. 1 3. An i eyeglass mounting comprising a substantially Sag bridge having in its rear face a recess exeluded from view from the front, and also having a pivot bolt extending through the top wall of said recess and gojecting into the said recess, and abridge aving a main bar pivoted on the'said bolt above the bridge,

and a spring in connection with said main bar and having a coiled ortion held by the bolt within therecess, su stantially as set forth. 4;."An eyeglass mounting comprising a bridge having in its rear face a recess 01? eluded from view from the front, and a guard having a main bar pivoted to the bridge and rojecting. into the" provided with a spring e bri ge, substantially as said rear recess of t set forth. W

5. An eyeglass mounting compr sing 9'.

'bridge having in its rear face a recess'ex-jeluded from view from the front, and a guard having a main bar pivoted to the bridge, and provided with a spring coiled between its :ends with its coiled portion fitting within the recess of the bridge, and also havin an ex- 'tension beyond the saidcoil, and a olt extending from the bridge into the saidcoil within the recess of the bridge, substantially, asset forth.

HERMAN GUSS ROSKIND.

Witnesses:

- R. E. HAYNES,

J. B. ONEAL. 

